I TAKE A FEW EXTRA LESSORS.

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upon me, and knew their owner was watching for a pretext to spit
out some venom on me. Preliminarily he would say—

' Here ! Take the wheel/

Two minutes later—

* Wliere in the nation you going to ? Pull her down I pull her
down ! *

After another moment—

* Say ! You going to
Let Iier go—meet her!

Then he would jump
snatch the wheel from me,
self, pouring out wrath
time.

George Ritchie was the
He was having good
boss, George Ealer, was

'PULL HER DOWN.*

hold her all day?
meet her!'
from the bench,
and meet her him-
upon me all the

other pilot's cub.
times now; for his
as kindhearted as

Brown wasn't. Ritchie had steered for Brown the season before;
conseqtiently he knew exactly how to entertain himse^ and plague